Guild Wars 2

Alrighty, hello everyone! I’m Adam Jariko on Tarnished Coast and I just have a quick question. With all the crazy things Asura can do with technology it seems almost impossible to tell them something is impossible, however a recent character concept of mine has brought the question: Can they do it?

I’ve been roleplaying out for some time that my character has a prosthetic arm made of bronze and clockwork, moreover I have been thinking of even making his heart and several other parts of his body like this, all of this awesome technology coming from an Asura scientist. Would it be possible in lore for, say, Adam’s heart to be made of bronze and clockwork? Something created on the fly to raise him from the dead?

Organs, don’t think so. But Tybalt Leftpaw is a charr engineer who has a mechanical arm after he lost it to an explosion. That is mostly charr technology.

Asuras don’t use bronze, copper, clockwork and other steam-punk items at all, they use magical energy and crystals.

It is possible to infuse an asura’s soul into a golem, as a personal sotry suggests, but that can’t be done back.

Clockwork is more a charr thing, the asura are more into magitech and would probably use some magic-powered device to fullfill the role of a heart, assuming they could.

Because it would recquire some advanced surgery (at least for the heart, the body limbs such as arms or legs would be more practical I guess) I don’t see it possible with present Charr or asuran technology but well, they have tanks, airships and giant laser cannons so who knows?

EDIT : Hijacked by Gandarel ^^

Sagely-Nod I see, I see. Then it would probably be a bit more plausible to say it was a big ol’ Charr that tore his chest open and crafted some sort of odd mechanical heart.

Theoretically, the technology is there. The asura’s floating architecture may be based on a repulsion field. In that case, if the field could be scaled down, weakened, and made to regularly pulse, it might suffice to circulate blood. The question is the design- for an asura to invent such a thing without having it riddled with fatal and probably gory side effects, they would need to extensively test it, which would require some rather less than ethical experiments. If your asura’s friends were desperate enough to bring him to such a shady inventor… Yeah. It might work. You do need to jump a few ifs there though. And it still would not be as effective or efficient as a true heart.

Heart idk but the arm, If the technology is proven to be there like the charrs arm then an asura could take an interest in that same technology and learn it. Just like asura engineers do.

There was an interview a long while back where Jeff Grubb was asked if asura would experiment on themselves and turn them into cyborgs. Jeff responded with cybornetics wouldn’t be unlikely, but not on themselves and would be more common as prosthetics in “a world with too many swords.”

I used this for my own ranger’s background story, who lost an arm and now has an asuran prosthetic (so it’d be rather golem-looking of an arm).

Asura would use robotic suits instead of prosthetics.

A charr bronze clockwork case, powered by an asuran power crystal and covered by a sylvan organic blood-proof protective layer.
I think that’s the best approach to an artificial heart in Tyria.
That or a complete sylvan organ. I don’t know if that can be made, but you would need an asura in order to perform or at least design the insertion procedure.

Why would it need to be shady? Experiment on things like raptors or skale or skritt.

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Clockwork is more a charr thing, the asura are more into magitech and would probably use some magic-powered device to fullfill the role of a heart, assuming they could.

Because it would recquire some advanced surgery (at least for the heart, the body limbs such as arms or legs would be more practical I guess) I don’t see it possible with present Charr or asuran technology but well, they have tanks, airships and giant laser cannons so who knows?

EDIT : Hijacked by Gandarel ^^

2 seconds can matter

Invasive experimental surgery that leaves the majority of patients dead practiced on sentient races is shady- so leave the skritt alone!
The thing about an artificial heart is the size of the device, and the rate and force of the beat, would have to be customized by race. So an artificial raptor heart on an asura would be catastrophic. There is no one-fits-all.

I think the experimenting on raptors would only be to ensure that the concept works…

Then you just hire some Inquest to get it working for sentient races. :P

The fact that inquest made it means it wont sell that well… Lets just get the brill alliance krewe to do it. They have no problem on experimenting with “willing” participants.

It’ll sell to the Arcane Council. They’re all about who gets the best results at the best price, and more often than not that’s Inquest. And from the Arcane Council the stuff will no doubt go to the other races… if profitable and not too compromising to what makes asura so needed among the others.

But we would need to create some sort of super-virus to cause heart failure across Tyria first… Then we will make a fortune selling hearts!

And I don’t think nations that support the pact will like inquest stuff…

Well, the Order of Whispers is already known for taking Inquest stuff and reusing it. “Why destroy what’s already made and functioning, even if the means to make is bad? We won’t be making more.”

Besides, there’s always the ability to cover up that the Inquest were the manpower in researching how to make it work for charr, norn, asura, etc.